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The 2008 JBoss World conference has been announced as happening in Orlando during February 13-15. That’s Valentine’s Day. Bring your sweetie south, and thaw out with some hot Java in the sun.
Want to be a superstar and get a free pass to the conference? Of course you do!
Just submit a presentation. [...]

As a child, a friend of mine (my Attorney) and I were in the local paper for building a sprawling Lego city across my rumpus room.
This morning, my son continued the legacy, by winning a bring-your-own-Lego(tm) Transformer(tm)-construction competition.
The Asheville Citizen-Times wrote it up nicely.
HENDERSONVILLE – For Noah McWhirter, building Lego figures just comes natural.
“I just [...]

Went out for a Venti(tm) dirty chai tea latte, and decided to scope out the Cingular/AT&T store that will be carrying iPhones tomorrow. Asheville is not a very large town, so we don’t expect many phones to come in.
But these two guys will definitely get one.

The lucky First Guy In Line is Greg Mayer [...]

I got back from my first ever JavaOne, and I’d have to say it was a success.
First the obligatory “look how cool I am” section…
Name dropping
Misc
Drank too much with Hani of the BileBlog. Congratulated Cameron & John Purdy at the Tangosol party. Finally met Phil Dodds and Brett Porter, from DevZuz. Dan [...]

The fantastically French Guillaume LaForge pinged me about the Groovy Meetup on Monday, in San Francisco.
It’s limited registration, so you best being heading over to the sign-up page.
I assume they’ll regale us with stories of that crappy hand-rolled parser that one of the founders insisted upon.
What a loon.

JavaOne is next week. Would you believe this is the first JavaOne I’ll ever have attended?
Some of my colleagues have put together a page detailing JBoss’s participation at the conference.
Speakers from JBoss include Gavin King and Emmanuel Bernard, Michael Yuan, Tom Baeyens and many others.
I’ll be hanging out at Booth #1418 along with James [...]

Just got back from Vegas, where I participated on a panel about opensource and business at TheServerSide Java Symposium. It involved five of us from businesses that were related to opensource in some form. It did not include Geir Magnusson, who apparently had better things to do.

Alfresco, John Newton
JBoss, some guy with a [...]

Thanks to my buddy Ben Walding, I’m now unofficially participating in the month of Movember, apparently to help raise awareness of men’s health issues.
Of course, I cheated by simply trimming down an existing beard, instead of growing a mo’ from scratch. I passed through an awkward Fu Manchu stage before arriving at the French-inspired [...]

Brian Topping had the foresight to bring his digital SLR and document the Oof Uncamp gathering last Tuesday evening. Attendees included some current and ex-ThoughtWorkers (Paul Hammant, Kurt Schrader), some guy from Ning (Brian McCallister), a cow-orker (Pete Royal) and a VP of something-or-another at Yahoo! (Sam Pullara). Plus our intrepid photo-historian, Brian [...]

Don’t forget, kids, that Talk Like a Pirate Day is coming up. Mark your calendarrrr, September the 19th. Yes, pirates are getting old. The meme is passing. Come on, Disney is working on their third freaking pirate movie already, so we know pirates are jumping the shark.
Some may claim that Chuck [...]